brave

1 (of a person)willing to do things which are difficult, dangerous or painful; not afraidsynonymcourageousbrave men and womenBe brave!I wasn't brave enough to tell her what I thought of her.See related entries:Brave

2 (of an action)requiring or showing couragea brave decisionShe died after a brave fight against cancer.He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful.

3brave new(sometimes ironicsometimes ironic)new in an impressive waya vision of a brave new Britain

Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French, from Italianbravo

‘bold’

or Spanishbravo

‘courageous, untamed, savage’

, based on Latinbarbarus from Greekbarbaros

‘foreign’

.Extra examplesThe whisky had made me brave.I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I wasn’t worried.I wasn’t brave enough to tell her what I thought of her.She took the brave decision to start her own business.Idioms